Biotech researcher Colleen Cutcliffe designed probiotics to help diabetics lower their blood sugar. Now she’s got a handful of expensive supplements for sale — and Halle Berry on board to help sell them.
daughter was born prematurely at just four and a half pounds, and spent the first month of her life in the intensive care unit taking antibiotics. As she grew, she experienced metabolic issues and food sensitivities. Cutcliffe, a trained biologist with more than 20 years of research experience, believed that the root of her daughter’s problem was in her gut, as antibiotic usage can lay waste to the “good” bacteria that reside there.
But this is moon-shot science. While scientists believe that a disrupted microbiome is linked with numerous diseases, from multiple sclerosis to rheumatoid arthritis, they’re only now just beginning to understand how–let alone precisely which prebiotics, probiotics and medical foods can help. “There’s a lot of data that clearly shows [the microbiome impacts our health], but a lot of that data is associative,” says Dr.
“I feel like a lot of my career has been just the grit of learning what people have already discovered, figuring out where there's opportunity to be creative, and then just being really diligent about developing products that have real efficacy behind them,” says Cutcliffe.up in Atlanta, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, never imagining that she’d become a scientist.
Researchers were then just becoming interested in the microbiome. While the concept dates back to the late-1600s, it wasn’t until 20 years ago that researchers began to understand that the microbes that inhabit our bodies could provide health benefits. Papers abounded, but scientists’ hypotheses were difficult to prove.
Relying on bacteria as a treatment for diabetes isn’t settled science, though. Dr. Sanders, a probiotic microbiology consultant for more than 30 years, cautions that just because people with a disease have a different microbiome than those who are healthy doesn’t prove that adding specific bacteria to their microbiome can help manage their disease. Then, too, targeting blood sugar alone isn’t enough, says Dr.
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